Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H559: אָמַר (ʼâmar) Definition

Strong's number
H559
Lemma
אָמַר
Transliteration
ʼâmar
Pronunciation
aw-mar'
Strong's definition
to say (used with great latitude) answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet. a primitive root;

4308 instances of the word אָמַר ʼâmar (H559)


  • Genesis 19:7 - And said I pray you brethren do not so wickedly

  • Genesis 19:9 - And they said Stand back And they said again This one fellow came in to sojourn and he will needs and he will needs now will we deal worse with thee than with them And they pressed even Lot sore Stand to break the door

  • Genesis 19:12 - said unto Lot any Hast thou here besides son in law and thy sons and thy daughters and whatsoever thou hast in the city bring them out of this place

  • Genesis 19:14 - get you out And Lot and spake his sons in law which married his daughters and said Up get you out of this place will destroy for the LORD this city But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law

  • Genesis 19:15 - And when the morning arose hastened then the angels Lot saying Arise take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city

  • Genesis 19:17 - And it came to pass when they had brought them forth abroad that he said Escape for thy life look not behind thee neither stay thou in all the plain to the mountain Escape lest thou be consumed

  • Genesis 19:18 - said And Lot

  • Genesis 19:21 - And he said unto him See I have accepted thee concerning this thing also that I will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken

  • Genesis 19:31 - said And the firstborn unto the younger Our father is old and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner in the earth

  • Genesis 19:34 - And it came to pass on the morrow said that the firstborn unto the younger Behold I lay yesternight of our father let us make him drink wine this night also and go thou in Behold I lay with him that we may preserve of our father seed

  • Genesis 20:2 - said And Abraham of Sarah his wife She is my sister sent and Abimelech king of Gerar and took Sarah

  • Genesis 20:3 - came But God to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him Behold thou art but a dead man for the woman which thou hast taken wife for she is a man's

  • Genesis 20:4 - But Abimelech had not come near her and he said Lord nation also a righteous wilt thou slay

  • Genesis 20:5 - and she Said is my sister and she and she even and she Said He is my brother and she in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done

  • Genesis 20:6 - said And God unto him in a dream Yea I know this in the integrity of thy heart that thou didst for I also withheld Yea thee from sinning against me therefore suffered I thee not to touch

  • Genesis 20:9 - called Then Abimelech Abraham and said thou hast done unto us and what have I offended thee that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom sin a great deeds thou hast done thou hast done

  • Genesis 20:10 - said And Abimelech unto Abraham What sawest thou that thou hast done this thing

  • Genesis 20:11 - Because I thought And Abraham Because I thought Surely the fear of God is not in this place and they will slay me sake for my wife's

  • Genesis 20:13 - caused me to wander And it came to pass when God house from my father's say unto her This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me at every place whither we shall come say of me He is my brother

  • Genesis 20:15 - said And Abimelech Behold my land is before thee where it pleaseth dwell